Intoxication

[rainyinterludes]

These days I miss being intoxicated: I miss capturing the first note of megha malhar with the rhythm of the rains I miss running down the stairs breathless with excitement to look into the eyes of love, I miss the inspiring high of a brilliant class lecture, I miss the thrill of setting afire the imagination of impish students, I miss the passion

Comments

Love the way you analyse it!

[hotchocolate29]

Hard to comment on what I have not read - but you make me want to read it which says it all! Both novels, kobe lekha? Noticed something that Amit Chaudhuri had written recently about Tagore's modernism, I'm always keen to highlight that but you'd be so much a better spokeswoman for that!

Re: Love the way you analyse it!

[rainyinterludes]

Eta ektu barabari hoye gelo, tao thanks!"Chaturanga" lekha 1916 e "Yogayog" 1929 e. Incidentally, Supriya Chaudhuri recently translated "Yogayog" as "Relationships", it has been published by Oxford.

[hotchocolate29]

not barabari- seriously:)Have you got the Oxford translations? They are so pricey here!! A.Chauduri's article was regarding the translatiions - he was commenting on Tagore's perception of Western Writers and his essays on Kalidasa where he tris to establish a classical / humanist tradition in the East.

[rainyinterludes]

No I don't have the Oxford translations yet. However, would definitely want to catch up with Supriya di's translation. Yogayog is very dense and complicated, it would be interesting to see how she handled it. Do forward the article if you have it online. With the copyright gone some good things are happening, like interesting translations and publications.One gets to see small novels as seperate entities, with individualistic covers, away from the colletive entity of a "rabindranath rachanabali".

[mistymonsoon]

Hey, this reminded me of our M.A. papers and ignited that urge to go back to the classrooms once again. A very thought provoking analysis, would love to see you do the same with Gora, since I always felt there was some amount of parallelism involved between Gora and Sachis.

[rainyinterludes]

Yes, I would like to read Gora once again.